. >> president obama wanted income redistribution along with health care access. and the only way to do that, to make money from the haves and give it to the have nots. >> at this festive season of the year, mr. scrooge, it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute. >> the idea that a child may never be able to escape that poverty because she lacks a decent education or health care or a community that viewser

, you know, right after voting to repeal obama care, vote on the paul ryan health care bill. i don't see that happening, but, again, i might eat my words. >> ryan, i don't know how you left off on tort reform. all these sort of basket of ideas, what they have in common, number one, they're really expensive, health savings accounts, all these things that return the costs back on to the insured, right, rather than putting them on the marketplace. and then really not popular. so republicans are basically saying, we're going to take away something that as of january 1st, people will actually tangibly have and replace it with something they must understand people don't want. does this make any sense? >> i don't know why bill crystal is walking around talking on behalf of paul ryan, as paul ryan is going to swoop in on a unicorn. >> he's going to be greeted as a liberator. >> right, he's going to come down in a jet landing. i do think that the reason this is unyou likely to happen, and brian is unlikely to eat his words, and i will eat my words too if i'm wrong, we're going into the mid te

health insurance in droves. the horror. don't worry. john boehner is ready to save us all. >> our focus has to be on protecting the american people from obama care. we have passed bill after bill trying to protect the american people from this disaster. so protecting the american people from obama care has been another priority. >> got that? he is protecting us. excellent. our panel is also the opinion writer. also a msnbc contributor. i didn't get to name your fabulous newspaper. we are looking forward to chris matthews interview and sitting down with the president and american university in front of a very deliberate audience which is young people. this is where the battle is being joined. the president is trying to convince younger americans that it's for you and republicans making what argument to young people some. >> the argument they are making with the creepy uncle sam showed they still do it. it's by the obama administration to make you get something you don't need and you probably don't want. it's a crazy thing. the president is going after young people in particular. one beca

a second chance to make a first impression. >> now we can judge obama care the way we should judge obama care. >> it's got to be an unfolding disaster for the president. >> can it sign up a lot of people who need health insurance. >> what a lot of bull. i mean, after all. >> and let's get right to our panel. joining us now, dana mill bank of the washington post and ryan grim of the washington post. i'll start with you, ryan. we had michael haden, former cia director, raised eyebrows this weekend when he said that edward snowden has this doom's day cache of secret intelligence he's waiting to drop on the united states. do you have any reporting on what is in said doom's day cache and should we be worried about it? >> i don't have any personal reporting. i have tried to reach out to snowden, have not succeeded in that. but, you know, from the reporting that's out there, you know, people say he does have such a cache that, you know, can be accessed if anything happens to him. you know, he's an extremely intelligent guy, and he thought through what he was doing, you know, fairly meticu